And this quote from Woody, if you were writing a book on the dreary middle-class crisis film, might be a good opener:

"I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable."


>But this film in particular definitely seemed more akin to
>Payne's style than Baumbach, Anderson, Smith, Allen, etc.